Favorite (US) Book 1910-1914

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Option	Votes
Ambrose Bierce- The Devil's Dictionary (1911)	4
Edith Wharton- Custom of the Country (1913)	2
Edgar Rice Burroughs- Tarzan of the Apes (1914)	2
Robert Frost- North of Boston (1914	2
Edith Wharton- Ethan Frome (1911)	2
Emma Goldman- Anarchism & Other Essays (1910)	2
Gertrude Stein- Tender Buttons (1914)	1
William Carlos Williams- The Tempers (1913)	1
Ezra Pound- Ripostes (1912)	1
Theodore Dreiser- The Titan (1914)	0
Henry James- Notes on Novelists (1914)	0
Eugene O'Neill- Thirst & Other One-Act Plays (1914)	0
Robert Frost- A Boy's Will (1913)	0
John Reed- Insurgent Mexico (1914)	0
Willa Cather- O Pioneers! (1913)	0
Mary Antin- The Promised Land (1912)	0
Jane Addams- 20 Years at Hull House (1910)	0
Ezra Pound- The Spirit of Romance (1910)	0
John A. Lomax- Cowboy Songs & Other Frontier Ballads (1910)	0
Theodore Dreiser- Jennie Gerhardt (1911)	0
Theodore Dreiser- The Financier (1912)	0
Zane Grey- Riders of the Purple Sage (1912)	0
James Weldon Johnson- Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)	0
Edith Wharton- The Reef (1912)	0
Edith Wharton- Tales of Men & Ghosts (1910)	0

― mulla atari, Friday, 15 February 2008 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone needs a tiny bit of info on any of these I'd be willing to provide it.

― mulla atari, Friday, 15 February 2008 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

aw, I was going to say the John Reed book about his travels in the WWI era Balkans and Russia but I guess it was written in 1915

― brownie, Friday, 15 February 2008 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

Zane Grey- Riders of the Purple Sage

this is a totally sweet book but i gotta go with bierce here no matter how many facebook profiles quote him

― max, Friday, 15 February 2008 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have much of a problem admitting that Edith Wharton was by far the best American novelist of this period, even though Ethan Frome is the most arid of her books.

I voted for North of Boston, which is certainly the best volume of poetry published then -- surpassing Pound's even.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 15 February 2008 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

Alfred totally OTM except for

http://bluehydrangeas.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/carl-sandburg.jpg

― remy bean, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

I thought there were some interesting contenders but of course Tender Buttons blows everything else out of the water.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

it does? how?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not being glib. Not like I read Stein much for pleasure these days, but to me it's not as interesting as Three Lives.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

Tender Buttons is the sort of thing you might like, if you like that sort of thing.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

i've only read the burroughs and (bits of) the bierce, so can't really say, but i've always wanted to read "insurgent mexico."

― J.D., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

woodrow wilson - the new freedom (1912) should be on the list.

― J.D., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure how to answer it -- reading Tender Buttons is nothing like reading those other books; it is one of those works that seems remarkably ahead of its time -- it would be maybe sixty years before there were other books like it being written.

But it also is a very nice mash note to Alice, filled with sex and sweetness and worry and domesticity.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 08:14 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

John Muir - My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really have a problem with Bierce winning, but was Ned even aware of this thread?

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I have it on good authority that he'd have voted for Zane Grey.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

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